The [course_title] course familiarises you with the basic concepts of dynamics of large-scale circulations in oceans and atmospheres including mass and momentum conservation, hydrostatic and geostrophic balance, and pressure and other vertical coordinates. The fundamental conservation and balance principles for large-scale flow, generation and dissipation of quasi-balanced eddies, equilibrated quasi-balanced systems will be covered in the course. Finally, the course illustrates the examples of oceanic and atmospheric quasi-balanced flows, computational models, and rotating tank experiments.
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Course Credit: MIT
Course Curriculum
| lec 01 Introduction | 00:10:00 | ||
| lec02 Fundamental balance and conservations principles for quasi-balanced flow | 00:30:00 | ||
| lec03 Equations of motion | 00:10:00 | ||
| lec04 Circulation | 00:40:00 | ||
| lec05 Potential vorticity | 00:45:00 | ||
| lec06 Invertibility | 00:30:00 | ||
| lec07 Potential vorticity and invertibility in the shallow water equations | 01:00:00 | ||
| lec08 Quasigeostrophy and Pseudo-potential vorticity | 00:50:00 | ||
| lec09 Quasi-geostrophic potential vorticity | 00:35:00 | ||
| lec10 An example of the application of potential vorticity | 00:20:00 | ||
| lec11 Boundary conditions | 00:30:00 | ||
| lec12 Eady edge waves | 00:25:00 | ||
| lec13 The superposition principle | 00:40:00 | ||
| lec14 The secondary circulation | 00:20:00 | ||
| lec15 Higher-order balance systems | 00:30:00 | ||
| lec16 Rossby waves | 00:30:00 | ||
| lec17 Quasi-geostrophic Rossby waves | 01:00:00 | ||
| lec18 Barotropic instability | 01:15:00 | ||
| lec19 Barotropic instability (cont.) | 01:20:00 | ||
| lec20 The Charney-Stern theorem | 00:30:00 | ||
| Assessment | |||
| Submit Your Assignment | 00:00:00 | ||
| Certification | 00:00:00 | ||
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